Posted by - on 12/31/05 15:40

"Ed" <eabowden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1135971657.921169.155080@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Please help!!
>
> Since I got my Panasonic DMRES20 DVD recorder at crimbo I have had a
> succession of woes. The latest is that the TVs in the playroom and
> bedroom are now without a picture/signal. I dont understand this AT
> ALL, because on Wednesday night I watched the football which was on Sky
> in the bedroom quite as normal.
>
> Aerial installers look away now as this will no doubt send a shiver
> down your spine
>
> Here is the set up
> Roof aerial in to DVDR, then on to SAT receiver, then RF1 on sat to VCR
> then into TV
> RF2 from sat outside and into playroom wall socket. cable from there
> into booster/splitter. RF1 out from the booster into ondigital box,
> then VCR, then playroom TV.
> RF2 out from booster back into wall socket, cabled round to bedroom TV.
>
> Now I can only get a picture on the TV in the playroom if I plug the
> aerial from the wall socket straight into the TV. This suggests that
> there is no problem with the signal from the SKY box to that point.
> BUT if I plug the cable into the wall socket to make the loop around to
> the bedroom I get almost no picture in the bedroom.
>
> This tends to suggest something is wrong with the cable from the wall
> socket in the playroom to the bedroom, but if I plug the cable from the
> playroom wall socket into the booster I get no picture to the playroom
> TV either, suggesting something is wrong with that too.
>
> I thought this might be an interference issue, and have been changing
> the RF out of the DVDR but it makes no difference. The at RF out is set
> to about 68, DVDR about 53 IIRC.
>
> But I still dont understand why it would suddenly stop working. Today I
> unplugged everything and then plugged it back in again and it worked
> fine, just like before i put the DVDR in the system and in fact just as
> wednesday night even with the DVDR in the loop.
>
> I am at a loss. Is there any possibility that someone in the street got
> a videosender for christmas that is screwing up my reception? I could
> hear some strange german voices on the bedroom tv - and no, my bedroom
> DVD player did not have a special film playing!
>
> Please help, I am at a total loss here!
>

I think if you want any serous help with this, you need to clarify exactly
what is cabled to where, and what the sockets are like.

As I understand your post, you have the stuff downstairs RF looped to the
downstairs TV which is working fine.

Then you have the RF2 from downstairs Sky box, run outside, then up into a
double socket (being used as 1 in, 1 out) in the playroom.

Socket 1 from this walllpate you have connected to a 2 way amplifier. One
amp output feeds the playroom TV. The other amp output goes back into the
wall socket (Socket 2) which then runs into the bedroom and feeds the TV
there.

Are you sure the amplifier hasn't stopped working? The signal at the double
walllplate seems to be OK from your post.

My guess would be that the amp is toast. When you say "if I plug the cable
into the wall socket to make the loop around to
the bedroom I get almost no picture in the bedroom" what cable are you
talking about? You just need a small coax cable to plug the socket output
back into the socket input, which then feeds the bedroom directly. If tihs
works then it's the amp.......

I guess you could run a cable from the playroom wall socket into the
playroom TV, and see if this works. It should. Then unplug it from the TV
and put it into the amp. Run another cable direct from the amp to the
playroom TV. This prob won't work and would confirm the amp is dead.

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